Great to see several NGI projects joining forces for an event targeting strategic audience on the very relevant topic of central bank digital currencies :
https://www.cbdc-forum.tech/en/
Heads-up on the forthcoming Digital Assembly
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/digital-assembly-2022-closer-look-digital-future
(hybrid event)
Digital Commons will be discussed 22 June 10:45-11:45 with interventions of Roberto Viola and Henri Verdier. Important open source policies to be presented.
Great #openhardware conference coming:
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2022
Some of the projects presented are funded by #NGI @fsi @mirkopresser @NGIZero
Hey ethical hackers, we opened a last-minute challenge on our #OSS4SDG #hackathon for anyone who is working on a plugin for @Moodle@twitter.com.
Go for it and submit your proposal!
Register NOW 👉 https://ideas.unite.un.org/moodleapp/Page/Overview
@UNOICT@twitter.com #UNICEF #ThinkOpen
Nice video review of /e/OS V1 / Murena on @Fairphone Fairphone 4 👏 Thank you @thelinuxEXP ! 🦸
Germany announced a EUR 3.5 million/year new 'Sovereign Tech Fund' to support open source projects.
We look forward to creating complementarities with #NGI.
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/germany-launch-sovereign-tech-fund-secure-digital-infrastructure
Interesting report from US for stimulating Free & Open Source Software: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Nagle-OSS-policy-brief-PDF.pdf
Including recommendations eg. OSPO and increased funding
Today, the new European Union’s NGI0 Entrust fund –with a total budget of 9.6M€- opens its first call towards the communities of open sources and commoners for improving trust in the internet.
Congratulation to the team led by NLnet @NGIZero
Mastodon and Peertube implement ActivityPub standards that NGI actively support. See list at https://www.ngi.eu/?s=activitypub
@NGIZero @humanetech
NGI is a proud funder of both mastodon and peertube technologies underlying #EUVoice and #EUVideo. @humanetech
@NGIZero
An initiative of the European Commission - DG CONNECT